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military affairs252
tragedy224
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historiography217
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food192
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science and technology

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Α alpha692
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ΑΙ alphaiota68

Vetting status

high1,589

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Short1,589

Translator

Jennifer Benedict722
Catharine Roth217
William Hutton172
David Whitehead135
Craig Gibson34
Antonella Ippolito32

61 more

Anne Mahoney27
Robert Dyer26
Stefano Sanfilippo17
Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝13
Oliver Phillips ✝12

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αι101Αἰείalway[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.107, where the headword occurs. (The headword ai)ei/ is a poetic equivalent for the prosaic a)ei/, so I have chosen an archaic synonym of 'always' for the …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1109Δικροῖςbifurcated, forked, two-pronged… in full later in the entry), with comment from the scholia there. The word picked out from it for the present headword is the dative plural, masculine or (as here) neuter, of the adjective …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1650Δυσκολοκάμπτους ᾠδάςintricate-twisted songs… is presumed (by Adler and others) to stem from the scholia to Clouds 971. [2] See phi 761 for this citharode and dithyramb poet. [3] The text here reads the third person singular of …

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Αἰεί

alway

Meaning always. "Alway may such enemies pursue me"; [sc. a proverbial phrase] in reference to people who are easy to despise. And elsewhere: "for alway your wife has you in her mouth." Meaning by means of her mouth.…

Αἰεί· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀεί. Αἰεί με τοιοῦτοι πολέμιοι διώκοιεν· ἐπὶ τῶν εὐκαταφρονήτων. καὶ αὖθις· αἰεὶ γὰρ ἡ γυνή σ' ἔχει διὰ στόμα. ἀντὶ τοῦ διὰ στόματος. κἂν ᾠὸν ἢ μῆλον λάβῃ, Κινησίᾳ…

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D. Graham J. Shipley2

D. Graham J. Shipley2

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Dennis McHenry2

Elizabeth Morgan2

Elizabeth Morgan2

Frederick Williams2

Frederick Williams2

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Joseph Wrightson2

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Konstantinos Kopanias2

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Alan Sommerstein1

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Phiroze Vasunia1

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α643Ἀεὶ τοῖς ἐρῶσιν σύνεσμενalways we associate with love(r)s… Aristophanes, Birds 704 (without 'always': web address 1 below). The scholia there supply the material which now follows; see further below, n.3. [2] So on vase-paintings: see Dunbar [below] 447. (For this sense of …Matched in noteshighshort

α1332Ἄλοπονunscutched… an acephalous version of what other lexica (and the Aristophanic scholia) have: a)le/piston. [2] The noun in this phrase is misquoted (or misremembered) here as a)mo/rghn ("olive-lees"); it should be a)morgi/n ("flax-stalk"). "Unscutched" (LSJ …Matched in noteshighshort

α1627Ἀμοργοί πόλεως ὄλεθροςsqueezers [are] a city's ruin… has no literary attestations but occurs only in commentators or scholiasts. Both Photius, Lexicon alpha1235 Theodoridis, and Eustathius on the Odyssey p. 1608, 57 agree with the Suda, perhaps drawing on some lost scholiast. …Matched in noteshighshort

α2737Ἀντιφερίζειςyou are measuring yourself againstAristophanes, Knights 813-814 (web address 1), with scholia. For Themistocles see theta 124, theta 125, theta 126. The scholiasts found the adjective e)pixeilh= at the end of 814 probematic. Some took it to mean …Matched in noteshighshort

α3455Ἀπόνιπτρονdirty water, washing water… Acharnians 616 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. [2] From scholiastic comment on Aristophanes, Wasps 1216, where the phrase "water for hands" occurs; and see generally Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 9.408F (9.76 …Matched in noteshighshort

α3682Ἀπραγμοσύνηindifference, idleness, quietude… and again mu 1058. What now follows comes from the scholia on this line: see next note. [3] The present headword as a botanical name is duly registered by LSJ s.v., IV, but Aristophanes …Matched in noteshighshort

α4020ἈρτάβηartabeLikewise or similarly in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 91 (where the comic name Pseudartabas occurs: web address 1 below). cf. alpha 4671. [1] This is the quantification of …Matched in noteshighshort

α4708Ἄχοςanguish, distress, sorrow[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.103, where the headword noun occurs. For the related participle see already alpha 4707. [2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1723 (web address 1 below), with scholion. The …Matched in noteshighshort

β313Βλάβηharm… other lexica. [2] Aristophanes, Frogs 1151, with comment from the scholia there. (The scholiast means the neuter form in the "fault" sense.)Matched in noteshighshort

β435ΒουλήςcouncillorFrom the scholia to Thucydides 3.70.5, a parenthetical phrase attached to the name Peithias (of Corcyra): e)tu/gxane ga\r kai\ boulh=s w)/n. But the scholiast got the wrong end of the stick: boulh=s is simply …Matched in noteshighshort

δ328Δείμωμενlet us build… 323. Similar entry in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 7.337, where the headword occurs -- but NB: it should be spelled dei/momen (a short-vowel aorist subjunctive). Additionally, the Suda …Matched in noteshighshort

δ420Δήμαρχοςdemarchos, demarch, mayor… Lysias fr. 184 Sauppe, now 237 Carey OCT); cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 37 (web address 1). See also delta 419 and the latter part of delta 421. [1] Harpok. and the scholiast …Matched in noteshighshort

δ625Διαλέγουσανenlarging, picking open… the vagina as secondary meaning. Besides the hint in the scholia ad loc. (kakemfa/tws, "used in a vulgar way") see J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 141 #155, and 168-9 #295 on …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1441Δωδεκάκρουνον στόμαtwelve-spouted mouthFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 526, where Cratinus' flow of language is mentioned. (The Suda's introductory 'For' (ga/r) echoes the scholiast, whose main point -- omitted here -- is that in his opinion …Matched in noteshighshort

ε117Ἐγκώμιονencomium… from common usage, are also found in other ancient commentators, scholiasts and rhetorical theorists: see e.g. Hermogenes, Progymnasmata 15.6 Rabe; the scholia to Isocrates 9.5; [Libanius], Characteres Epistolici 30.2-7. [1] cf. Aristotle, Rhetoric 1367b28-1368a9.Matched in noteshighshort

ε470Ἐκκλησία κυρίαprincipal assemblyFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 19, where the headword phrase occurs (in the genitive case). [1] cf. epsilon 471. On the ekklesiai see generally ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 43.3-5, with P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary …Matched in noteshighshort

ε588ἘκποκιῶI will de-fleece… Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 567 (web address 1), with comments from the scholia thereto. [2] This sentence on the author's comments seems to alternate abruptly between the family of words relating to 'fleece' (po/kos) and those …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1061Ἐμοὶ δὲ τοιοῦτον ἔργον ἔστ' εἰργασμένονsuch a deed have I accomplished as to stop the mouths of each and every one of my enemies as long as there is anything left of the shields from PylosAristophanes, Knights 844-46 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. For Kleon see generally kappa 1731. For his military success at Pylos and Sphacteria, in the SW Peloponnese, see generally Thucydides 4.1-41 …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1466Ἐντετριμμένηpainted, powdered, rubbed-in… Ecclesiazusae 732-3 (web address 1), interlarded with comment from the scholia there. The actual headword, extracted from the quotation, is perfect middle/passive participle, feminine (Chremes is addressing a sieve: see further n. 1 below) …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1897Ἐώρημαcrane, hoistFrom scholia on Aristophanes, Peace 76 and 80 (web address 1): Trygaeus is described as addressing his giant dung-beetle steed as if it were Pegasus (OCD(4) s.v. Pegasus(1), and under tau 894). [1] This …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2057Ἐπενήνοθενwas flourishing upon… nu-moveable at the end; cf. Iliad 10.134, Odyssey 8.365). The scholiast here seems to associate the headword with a)nqe/w ('bloom'), and he is followed tentatively in that respect by some modern authorities including LSJ …Matched in noteshighshort

χ164ΧαίρεινgreetingsFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 609 (web address 1), where this form -- an infinitive of the verb meaning 'to be happy' -- occurs. The claim that Kleon (kappa 1731) was the first …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1161ΔιόμειαDiomeia… present entry cf. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. and the Aristophanic scholia cited in the notes below. On Diomeia see generally J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica (1975) 39; D. Whitehead, The Demes of …Matched in noteshighshort

αι245Αἰόλανdarkening, discolouring… fr. 7 Jouan-van Looy = 122 Nauck, 171a Mette; cf. scholia to Thesm. 1034, 1040). In Aristophanes it is sung by the Relative (of Euripides), acting the part of Andromeda. The gloss occurs in …Matched in noteshighshort

αι246Αἰόλλειturns, variegates… the third gloss here, plana=, with the preferable kinei=); the scholia to Nicander, Theriaca 155b (kinei=, stre/fei, poiki/llei); the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 20.27 (poiki/lws stre/fh|, kinh=|, cf. the scholia to Iliad 2.816, 3.83, …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1629Δυσηλεγήςgrief-bringing, cruel, pain-inducing, ruthless… have a double source: (i) Probably via Hesychius s.v., the scholia to Homer, Iliad 20.154: dushlege/os: deinou=, duskolou=, xalepou= (scholia vetera and scholia recentiora) -- which explains xalepo/s here. (ii) The scholia to Hesiod, …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1194Διόπτηςable to look through [something]Aristophanes, Acharnians 435 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. See further in the notes below. [1] The explanation of the headword dio/pths can be found both in the scholia vetera and …Matched in noteshighshort

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